Contract farming in northern district of West Bengal: A socio-economic profile study

This manuscript investigates the socio-economic profile of the contract farmers in the Coochbehar district of West Bengal, emphasizing the key attributes influencing their participation in contract farming. An ex-post-facto research design was adopted, utilizing a purposive, multistage, and random sampling procedure. The Coochbehar district was selected purposively. Among the thirteen gram-panchayats, five-gram panchayats of the Coochbehar II block such as Dhang Dhingguri, Pundibari, Ambari, Marich Bari Kholta, and Patlakhawa were selected randomly. A total number of ten (10) villages were selected randomly for this study. The researcher randomly selected hundred (100) respondents from ten (10) different villages. The study explored personal variables such as Age (X1), Education (X2), Family Education Status (X3), Contract Farming Experience (X4), some socio-economic variables such as Annual Family Income (X5), Annual Family Expenditure (X6), Landholding (X7), Economically Active Member (X8), Personal Possession (X9), and some communication variables, Communication Skills (X10), Extension Contact (X11), Mass Media Exposure (X12) and Extension Participation (X13) and some psychological variables like, economic motivation (X14), risk preference (X15), innovation proneness (X16), achievement motivation (X17), scientific orientation (X18) and management orientation (X19).